The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-16
Edited agetus and 91ntes.

"A new town in Texas has been NAM
ed in honor of Miss Frances E. Willard.
Mr.. d. L. Moody has secured the
$2aO,0OO guarantee fund asked by him to
found in Chicago a training school for
missionaries.
John A. Roche, elected last week as
mayor of Chicago, by big majority, is
an active member of the Third Unitarian
parish Of this city.
In the belief OF Rev. Washington
GLADDEN., writing in the April Forum,
Unsocialism" is as much to be guarded
against as Socialism"
The Firms have had the new Tesla
ment for some time, and now, at the re-
quest of the Norwegian Bible Society,
Lars Hatta has translated the Old Tesla
ment into their language.
In his discourse at Trinity church,
Boston, on the Sunday after Mr.. Beech
er's death, Rev. Phillips Brooks declared
that the three greatest Americans of the
century were Daniel Webster, Abraham
Lincoln and Henry Ward Beecher.
Col. Ingersoll's tribute to Beecher is
thus phrased: The greatest man in any
pulpit Of the world, "-"a minister with
an intellectual horizon broad enough and
mental eky studded with stars of genius
enough to hold all creeds in scorn that
shock the heart of child"
Rev. M. j. Savage, remarks the April
nttaridn, in recent sermon says of
theology: Some day it will be the sci
ence of sciences" He is clear yisioned
enough to see that the goal of rational
religion is not no theology, as many
urge, but worthy and true theology-a
theology built on foundations that cannot
be shaken.
Bancroft wrote of his father, the
clergyman, DR.. Aaron Bancroft" Age
may have impaired his vivacity; but his
last years were serene; and whenever it
was discussed whether man would like
to live his life over again, my father al
ways expressed himself so well satisfied
with his career that he would willingly run
it once more"
According to George w. Smalley,
"People are reading Lord Tennyson's Ju-
bilee Ode with incredulous amazement
that these unmusical verses, awkward
phrases and meaningless coinages, like
lord territorial and lord manufacturer
should be signed with the poet Laureate's
name" 1t is well, however, for Ameri-
cans to reserve judgment till they see the
entire ode.
"A professor of the art of training the
memory adduces as shining example Of
his success the case of Connecticut cler-
gyman, who, after five lessons, was ena-
bled to commit to memory two sermons in
two hours. He thinks that if cergymen
in general should recite their sermons
rather than read them, the world would
be better DR.. Storre, who probably
leads his profession as preacher with
out manuscript, does not advise every
man to follow his example.
1t is the danger of all high religions
that their ministers are prone to exalt the
formal ritual and dogmatic side at the
| expense of the ethical. Whenever dogma
Is so represented as to seem to have no
moral purpose, then religion sinks into
superstition, and it is as true supersti.
ton under Christian forms as under any
other forms. When barren theories or
tithes of mint, anise and cummin take
the place Of law, judgment, mercy, and
genuine faith, religion has become su-
perstition.
Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, who
died on the 4th inst. in New York, was
accounted the richest unmarried woman
in the United States. Her fortune was
estimated at $20,000,000. She devoted
nearly all her time to charity, and all her
income. For fifteen years she is said to
have given fully 100000 year. Her
benefactions are said to have amounted
to at least $4,000000 Her many chart
ties caused her to be 80 importuued for
aid that the constant drain on her SYM
pathies shortened her life.
The Presbyterian remarks: zone of
the marked features of modern church
life is the wonderful development of the
influence of Christian women in various
lines Of consecrated activity. All depart
ments of spiritual work have been
strengthened and enriched by this new
accession of service. There are yet other
possibilities of power in the hearts and
hand of the Christian women who COM
pose so large a proportion OF the men,
bership in all our churches. Any move
ment that helps toward the culture and
development OF this rich inhuen ce should
be welcomed
"A hundred years ago, says the Chris
tiaI Life, man was regarded almost uni
versally as lost and fallen creature, who,
under curse for the folly and sin of his
ancestors, created perfect six thousand
years before, had continually become
more and more degraded. Religious men
thought they were honoring the AL
mighty by believing that his great pur-